I’m trying to tinker with my system and replace a perfectly good and well optimized default kernel for some kernel made for specific niche use cases and I don’t see any performance increase. Why would it be?

Yes, surprisingly the default kernel is optimized well rather than just being a badly written placeholder that users should manually replace for their system to become usable.

It’s 2025 and stuff is designed to just work out of the box.

But it’s used in PES (Passenger Entertainment Systems) at least.

I use compose key sequences to save time writing out long email addresses. For example, I have something like this in my ~/.XCompose:

<Multi_key> <b> <o> <s> <at>: "myangryboss@company.com" # Email of my very angry boss

So I can just type Compose (right alt on my system), bos@ and get his email address. Less error prone than typing out emails manually.

I’m probably not the only one to use compose strings as a replacement to a text expander, but I don’t know anyone else who does this.

Is KDE 3 so bad that people only prefer <3 or >3, but never =3?

Is there a way to use this as a drop in replacement easily? Like maybe move my Thunderbird profile folder into a Bettterbord folder, or maybe an automatic import option?

This looks promising but I don’t really want to set up my email accounts and settings from scratch.

Probably true, it depends. There are Steam folks and then there are GOG folks.

I prefer GOG tbh because it’s DRM free, but for some games I still need Steam, unfortunately.

It’s actually surprising how easy it is to use.

My wife was playing Baldur’s Gate 3 on her windows laptop (GOG version, DRM free) and I just wanted to see if I can run it on my Linux laptop.

Just copied the game folder from her laptop to my external SSD, plugged it into my laptop, ran through proton. Everything works without any issues. Simple as that.

I was pleasantly surprised. We could even join via LAN and had some co-op fun. After trying it out I think I’m buying the game.

Or libreoffice draw sometimes, it depends, but yes, pdfarranger + one of the two is enough for most of the tasks.

For working with PDFs on a page level (moving pages around, deleting, copying pages between PDFs etc) pdfarranger is the best and easiest of anything I could find, can vouch for it.

Those are rookie numbers.

Keypirinha. Krunner is good but not that good.

Sharex. Spectacle is fine but not perfect.

Wait, what? I’m out of the loop here. Microsoft published a free activator? What’s the catch?

Thanks for saving my time.

At least you have the menu bar.

Sometimes I think that I miss skeuomorphism, but then I realize it’s not the skeuomorphism that I miss, but my childhood and days when the world was much simpler.

Would I like to bring back skeuomorphic UIs? Yes.

This is the fairly known thing, I’m amazed you never heard of it.

Extend, Embrace…

What next? Extinguish?

Heh, let them try.

Slightly off topic but after years of using CorelDraw it’s so hard to pick up inkscape.

I use Linux on my home laptop now and try to use FOSS software on work laptop (it’s still Windows 10), and I try to stay with Inkscape as much as possible, but some things are just muscle memory at this point and some workflows can’t be replicated with Inkscape.

It’s not hard to change software, it’s hard to chage habits and workflows.

Other than that, Inkscape is great software, only missing a few features I wish were there, and having many more features that CorelDraw doesn’t have.

My thought as well. Maybe sync was in default configuration or I just copy pasted it without reading.

Long story short, I have no idea if system user passwords and sama user passwords are the same thing, how to set them up (if they are not the same), or how to make samba use same user accounts and passwords (so that I don’t have to remember one more password). So I just gave up.

I was trying to do everything according to arch wiki, but either samba is overcomplicated for no reason, or the article is just not written well.

Just my experience, I was unable to log in after trying to add samba to my installation. Had to boot into live usb and reset my password.

Maube I’m just bad and it’s not samba.